DAILY GK 21 FEB 2020
1.
Nature Ranking Index 2020
ü Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) ranked first in
the Nature Ranking Index 2020. All the institutions are ranked on the basis of
total research output from december 01, 2018 to 30th November , 2019.
2.
EY Entrepreneur of the Year award for
2019
ü Kiran
Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director (MD)
of Bengaluru based biopharmaceutical company Biocon, won Ernst &
Young Entrepreneur of the year 2019 at the 21st edition of the awards held
in New Delhi, India.
3.
ESPN Multi-Sport Annual Awards 2019
ü PV
Sindhu & Saurabh Chaudhary declared as
‘Sportsperson of the year’ 2019 female & male. PV Sindhu received this
‘Sportsperson of the year’(Female) award for the third consecutive time. Dutee
Chand was named as the first winner of the ESPN India courage award.
4.
Dhanlaxmi Bank New MD & CEO
ü RBI
appointed Sunil Gurbaxani as MD and CEO of Dhanlaxmi Bank for
a period of 3 years. Sunil was the successor of T.Latha.
5.
Left arm Indian spinner Pragyan Ojha
announced retirement from all forms of cricket
6.
Inventor of Copy-Cut-Paste passed away
ü Lawrence
Tesler known as Larry Tesler was
an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer
interaction and also the Inventor of Copy-Cut-Paste functions for computers in
1973 has passed away at the age of 74.
7.
International Mother Language Day (IMLD) -Feb
21, 2020
ü Theme:
“Languages without Border”.
ü Also
MHRD celebrated ‘Matribhasha Diwas’ on feb 21, 2020.Theme: “Celebrating
our Multilingual Heritage”.
